Parsing JSON data is fundamental to any iOS app that performs remote REST API calls. Thanks to the Codable protocols introduced in Swift 4, Swift has a native and idiomatic way to parse JSON data. By Matteo Manferdini.
Paired with the JSONDecoder class, the Decodable protocol allows straightforward JSON decoding in a few lines of code and more sophisticated techniques to handle all the possible data formats and edge cases. Further you will learn:
- How to parse JSON data in Swift
- Advanced techniques to parse complex JSON data
- Building a SwiftUI app that downloads and parses JSON data
You will also find plenty of code examples in the article and links to further reading. Author also prepared a free cheat sheet for you to download. Good read!
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